Transcript from Q&A Zoom Event

My apologies for my silence this week. I had some travel and I’ve been working on a bigger piece about the full situation in Ukraine that I will be posting soon. This is a cleaned-up transcript from the Zoom event I held last week. I really enjoyed it and hope to have another one soon. I tried to edit for clarity to make it easier to read but I’m sure I missed things. I appreciated all the thoughtful questions! Also, I will be doing a Ukraine-specific event tomorrow (December 3rd) with Tim Mak and Ryan McBeth.

Question from Diane in Florida: She wants to know about what, if anything, can Europe and the U.S. do to bring the war in Ukraine to an end without ceding occupied territories?

So, this is this is a very interesting and live question. There was a recent article published by some think tank luminaries just within the past week that rekindled this call for negotiations and to hold the lines where they are right now. I think the problem with the idea of thinking about shifting to neg…